"Live high, live mighty, live righteously, let's take it easy.." - Live High, Jason Mraz
It's been a while since my last post. If my blog were human, he must have been mad at me and found himself a new lover. Ha. Now, why I consider my blog as a "he"? Anyway, I'm a mess. Well, doesn't come out right tho, yet I can't find any other word to dscribe my condition *unhappy face*. Some aspects in my life seems so messy, and there's just something missing in my life now, I can't quite figure what it is. And in time like this, my time machine is one of my medicines.
Yes, my time machine is music. And now it's called "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things", an album by Jason Mraz.
Perhaps, my little reunion with this album is part of my excitement of his coming back here to Jakarta for his world tour this June (I'm talking about Jason Mraz). Partly. Mostly, it's just I miss those days; those days when this album sort of shares my life, in an amazing way. In an aMRAZing way, I must say.
It brings me to couple years ago. Well, when your present life seems to be so messy, you'll look at your past time and wonder how you could go back there and stay for a while, or simply rewind it and let it flow once again to today. I used to listen to the album like a lot. A lot, like there's no other song, no other artist, no other album.
This album brings me to the moment I first saw him, Mraz, live in concert. It was in 2008, and the album was still fresh from the oven. I remember how hard it was just to get his ticket. I remember how it was sold out just hours before I intended to buy it. I remember how finally they came up with an additional show on the next day and how I was very grateful of that! I finally got to see him after spending days (literally) crying on my bed. Haha. Does it sound like fangirling? Ah, but it's Jason Mraz.. Best part of the show, which was held as part of the annual Java Jazz Festival 2008, I got to see the show with my sister and my two best friends. Yes, we had joy, we fun, we had season in the sun, as Terry Jacks put it. Do I miss the moment? Yes sir, yes sir.
And that, my friend, is just one of a million memories I miss so much. It's amazing how songs can remind you of some little things that feel so big, isn't it? It's like when I listen to "If It Kills Me", one song from the album that directly tells about a man being in love with a woman yet can't say it out loud. I remember how I used to play the album till I fell asleep, and woke up at for 4 am or so and found out that my playlist was playing this song. Listening to the song, that quite represented my feeling at that time (lol), at 4 am was just.. epic.
Another song of his called "Lucky" quite reminds me of.. no, I'm not gonna tell you about a past relationship of mine; I wanna say that it reminds me that I used to go karaoke-ing.. through Youtube.. a lot! And this "Lucky" is my fave sing-a-long song. I remember I sang it a lot with some random guy on youtube that happened to record himself singing the Jason's part so other can sing the Colbie's part. Now that you figure it out, I kinda have a recording of me and this virtual guy nailing the duet. Haha. No, I'm not gonna show you. Though it sounds like I had too much spare time that moment.. no. I just knew many ways to have fun.
And "Detail In the Fabric", a song by the fantastic duo, JM - Jason Mraz and James Morrison, reminds me a lot of my online activity those days; how I spent time blogging, how I did lots of chit-chat with my long lost bestfriends. I have no idea how, but turns out I listened to the song a lot while blogging and stuff. Maybe it's simply because the song appeared on my blog. Now that I mention it, I miss that me-time alone with my blog though it means hello to sleepless nights. Ah, old days..
And clearly this album brings me back to those happy campus life, when all I do was having fun between classes with my besties, when assignments were as fun as a playground. Taking about how those assignments and tests stressed us out, yet we still can spend time for messing around like a boss! The joy of being the first and the second year students!
Not to mention, every song lyric had affected my life. Not only did it cheer me up and boost my mood and spirit, but also, as I told you before, it kinda shared my life story at that very moment. I'm not sure how Mraz did it. It feels that every song there could represent my feelings; my every feeling. Some described me. Some describes me. So much. Precisely. Yeah, now I feel like hugging the album....
Life goes on, life change. People change, for better, for worse, or just change for good. I believe I'm the one who said this: "those precious memories are precious because we simply can't go back to them." Stay precious, memories.. :")
Now I'm listening to Mraz' newest album "Love is A Four Letter Word", and eventho Mraz is no longer the man with short hair and fedora hat (which I miss so much!) and no longer singing with his sidekick Toca (and I miss him too), I realize he is still the guy who shares love through his music.
Well, did I say I'm a mess? Not sure if my life's messy or I just miss... :')
Get back to the reality now, shall we?
